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INFLUENZA.
One death resulted from this disease. The public
should be aware that they are guilty of culpable rashness
in unnecessarily visiting cases of this disease.
It is highly infectious, and even where death does not
result, the after effects, such as mental derangement,
sometimes cause suicide and even murder.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
Forty-five cases of Scarlet Fever (24 in 1910),
13 cases of Diphtheria (17 in 1910) ,and one case of
Enteric Fever (2 in 1910) were treated in the Hospital.
There was one death from Scarlet Fever but none
from Diphtheria.
In consequence of the larger number of Scarlet
Fever cases admitted during the year the bath room in
the Scarlet Fever block has been in continuous use.
This bath room was intended to be used for the
discharge of patients but has proved to be unsuitable
for that purpose.
I wish to draw the Council's attention to the inadequacy
of the present arrangements.
METHODS OF DISINFECTION.
All articles of bedding, wearing apparel, curtains,
rugs, etc., are removed to the Hospital and disinfected
by means of steam in a Thresh's Saturated Steam
Disinfecting Apparatus. Rooms are sprayed with
formalin, and then fumigated with vapour of formaldehyde.
The staircases, passages, etc., are always
sprayed with formalin.
Rooms were stripped after cases of infectious disease
in fourteen instances.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Six deaths were caused by Phthisis, and 3 by
other Tuberculous diseases, or 6.8 per cent. of the whole
mortality.